Leadership is "Guiding Intent with Integrity". Knowing the equation is one thing. How do you use it?
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Being an Artists and Enrepreneur
Artists do study art history to see what others have created, how and why. What inspired them, and who paid for the work. And to determine why something is considered a great work of art.
Some artists have natural talent to draw very beautiful and creative things. Some, are still refining their craft. Some are looking to imitate the great masters and wish to better understand their techniques.
The disruptors find innovative ways to create the same works of art using minimalistic tools.
Which brings us to the business men who follow the disruptors and work to take their works farther. Scale their inventions, patent them, and promote them to people to whom they will most benefit from.
These business men do study the market, constantly asking .. What do you need? ..
Every business man knows that if they can match a need to an innovative solution and scale their business, they will reap the rewards.
Many people will tell you that these business men are taking a huge risk bringing a new product to market, but that is not true. They are well aware of the current markets needs and how to connect the various dots to reach the rewards.
So, when someone tells you that we dont need art classes in school, because it doesnt teach usable skills, remind them that some usable skills are about finding unique, creative and innovative ways to solve new and old problems.
So my family has a Gay Pirate Plate.
Stay with me.
We do not know how the hell the Gay Pirate Plate was first acquired. This being a point of contention is actually pretty plot-relevant; the saga of the Gay Pirate Plate began with my grandmother and her sister, who, for some ungodly reason, both BADLY wanted the Gay Pirate Plate and believed it to be rightfully theirs.
I should back up, firstly, to establish: The Gay Pirate Plate is the cheapest, tackiest, ugliest plate in existence.
It is in no way a collector’s item. It is physically impossible for it to complement anyone’s decor, because the colors in it are garish. It’s just a ceramic plate with a gay pirate painted on it, and the painting is, this cannot be emphasized enough, extremely bad.
(How do we know the pirate is gay if he’s just posing on a plate? Listen. Fully 100% to stereotype, but he is. He is gay. There’s an energy. That pirate is a flaming homosexual. That pirate has sex with men and does it frequently. That pirate is fucking gay, all right, he just is.)
Anyway. The point is that this is an extremely cheap and ugly plate with a poorly-executed painting of pirate on it who is like a nine on the Kinsey scale.
My grandmother and her sister fought a blood feud over this plate for their entire lives. It would be on the wall in my grandma’s house, and then her sister would visit, and then it would be gone. She’d visit her sister and the plate would be on the wall and her sister would pretend it had always been there. She would steal it back, hang it up, and, when her sister visited, pretend it had always been there. This continued for DECADES.
When the sister died, the Gay Pirate Plate lived triumphantly in my grandmother’s house. And then my grandmother died. And my aunt, who had lived with her and been her carer throughout her life, rightfully inherited their house.
We visit my aunt after the funeral and stay with her for a week or two.
Me, my sister, and our dad. Her brother.
The three of us look at each other. We don’t say anything. We studiously avoid making eye contact with the Gay Pirate Plate mounted proud and ugly on the wall. We notice one another studiously avoiding looking at it. We notice one another noticing. We say nothing. We come to a silent consensus. We pack up to leave. We get in the van. Our aunt comes out to say goodbye. I loudly announce I need to use the restroom before we leave. She obviously stays outside to continue talking to my dad.
I take down the Gay Pirate Plate, stuff it under my oversized sweatshirt, go outside, and get in the van. She happily waves goodbye as we drive off.
Two days later my dad gets a phone call that opens with hysterical laughter and “You FUCKING ASSHOLE did you seriously STEAL THE PLATE–”
Anyway. The gay pirate plate lives in my dad’s house currently.
But he’s trying to get me and my sister out to visit him. And plate mounts are cheap.
Trust and Verify
Many times I read that Trust takes a long time to acquire and lost in an instant. But, I find Trust and Verify to far more effective and faster to establish trust, along w managing expectations.
It doesn't require you to trust your partner, since you can confirm the work is done through quality assurance.
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Stop avoiding conflict and start advocating for yourself
